Google paid $26B to be default search engine in 2021, exec testifies in antitrust trial‘Grandpa Google’: Exec testifies innovation is key to avoid becoming ‘road kill’ at antitrust trial
Justice Department attorneys pressed Pichai to explain his handling of now-infamous internal group chat from 2021, in which he asked a Google employee to “change the setting of this group to history off.” Pichai was the most high-profile witness to date in the Google antitrust trial, where the feds have accused the Big Tech giant of spending billions of dollars per year – including more than $26 billion in 2021 – to maintain its search engine as the default setting on most devices andDuring his opening statement, DOJ attorney Ken Dintzer alleged that Google had “destroyed documents for years because they knew their conduct violated the antitrust laws.
When asked about Google’s billions in annual spending on default deals, Pichai acknowledged, “We definitely see value.”Pichai also jabbed at rival Microsoft, whose CEO Satya Nadella had earlier referred to the notion of consumer choice as “bogus” due to the prevalence of Google’s search engine.
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